St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Happy New Year from Primary 7A

We have had a busy first week back , mainly focussing on numeracy, literacy and topic. We joined together with P7B to start rehearsing for our show ” Edith’s War Time Scrap Book..” In Literacy, we have learnt about hyperbole and have been making up our own examples. During numeracy, we developed our knowledge of how to complete long multiplication calculations. Some of us found this particularly tricky! We also worked in pairs to research information about famous Scottish authors.  We started a new class novel entitled ” Millions” by Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Here are some of our learning highlights:

Hamnah. Reya – ” We enjoyed the rehearsals for the show! ”

Ben- ” I enjoyed learning how to complete long multiplication calculations.”

Ameya and Alfred- ”  Researching Famous Scottish Authors was interesting! ”

Baibua- ” I enjoyed gymnastics and learning to perform forward rolls correctly.”

Sam- ” I liked learning about how to use hyperbole in writing.”

CoNgratulations to Nell on being our hot chocolate winner this week!

Congratulations to Reya who was nominated our class reading champion for the next two weeks.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary7A

Happy New Year from P1B!

We have had a great first week back! We have been practising reading and writing words this week. We got to use little snowmen to help us sound out the word and then magnetic wands and chips to blend the words to read them. It was great fun! We read the book ‘Sneezy the Snowman’ and did some writing about why the snowman melted.

In maths, we have been learning all about subtraction. We used the little snowmen and ten frames to help us.

As the weather has been very cold, we put some water outside overnight. We then got to play with the ice. We learned all about the words solid, liquid and gas.

In PE, we have started our work on gymnastics. We learned about balances this week. Ask us all about 1,2,3 and 4 point balances.

This week we got to make our own robots using junk modelling materials. We had great fun and showed some excellent creativity.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Aayat – I enjoyed making the robots.

Victoria – I enjoyed doing the gymnastics.

Aria – I enjoyed making my robot.

Eloran – I enjoyed writing about the snowman.

Mikayla – I enjoyed making our robots.

Hanna – I enjoyed drawing.

Congratulations to Amelia who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She is always kind to others and helps people when they need it.

Well done to Niall who is our Reading Champion this fortnight. He has shown confidence in reading CVC words and always find lots of common words in books during ERIC time.

We wish all our families and friends a very Happy Christmas and we look foward to seeing you all again in the new year.  Thank you boys and girls for all your hard work everyday in class learning new things.  Look how far you have all come since starting school in August, our Awesome Ogilvies.  Thank you to our parents for all your support this year.  It is greatly appreciated.

Merry Christmas and have a restful holiday, Mrs Russell and Mrs Meikle

Wishing all of our special children and families a peaceful Christmas.  See you all in 2026!

Hello P3 families!  Here are this week’s highlights from The Polar Bears:

Maks has continued to enjoy Maths with addition within 100.  The children are growing in confidence understanding the concept of exchanging and carrying over.  Maks’ favourite subject is maths!

Danvith liked the religion lessons were we listened to passages in the Bible about an angel appearing to Joseph in his dreams.  We compared his character to that of King Herod’s.

Sophia enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison.

Vakashini has said that Scottish Country Dancing was the best part of her week!  We all look forward to our Christmas party this coming Monday where we will put our dancing skills to the test!

Oscar liked making cards for the non-teaching staff in the school.  This was Friday’s Mini Vinnie Advent suggestion on preparing for Christmas.

Daisy enjoyed designing a Christmas decoration for our whole school competition.  Congratulations to the winning entry from our class, Navami, who made a lovely wreathe with hanging star.  The children were tasked with the challenge of only using given materials supplied by Mrs McKisssack.  It was so lovely to see the creativity P3 had; all using the same materials but in different, creative ways.  We look forward to hearing who the winner was soon!

Umaez continued to enjoy our description writing this week.  We have finished the first draft and will now complete our final draft next week.  We hope to present them to the people we wrote about and I know they will love them!

My highlight was when Mrs McKissack came in and said how lovely our class singing was during the Advent service.  I felt very proud of the class.

There will be no new reading books handed out for the last week of term but those who have opted-in for homework, will continue with their spelling and maths.

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

This week we have been very busy preparing for our Nativity. We had to practise being on the stage and moving round the hall. It was very exciting. We had our dress rehearsal for our siblings, buddies and nursery friends and we did so well. On Thursday, we had two performances for our families and we did an amazing job!

On Friday, we went to mass at St Peter’s. We then got to sing our Nativity songs for the parishioners and help to set up the Nativity Scene in the church. We got a special treat of juice and shortbread and it was delicious.

This week we read the book ‘Rudey’s Windy Christmas’. We thought it was very funny! Ask us all about the story. We had to listen and follow the instructions to draw our own reindeer and we got to colour the pictures in. We did a fantastic job of creating these.

We all agreed that our highlight of the week was taking part in the Nativity.

Congratulations to Victoria who is our Reading Champion this fortnight. She has shown confidence in trying to read cvc words.

Hello P2 families

We have been enjoying to start of Christmas celebrations this week by watching the fabulous P2 assembly, creating Christmas crafts and having our advent assembly which P2 did an amazing job reading and singing.

We were also very lucky to have Kids Gone Wild this week which we played with zip lips and slack lines!

We have been very busy this week!

P2 weekly highlights

I liked the advent service – Freddie

I liked Kids Gone Wild – Zac, Vivaan, Emilio, Dhawan, Lena, Zoe

I liked doing Big Maths Beat That – Hallie

I liked doing free writing – Alfie

I liked making our snow globes – Zenith

I liked handwriting – Felix

I liked outdoor learning – Guhan Kamar

Have a great weekend!

Hello P3 families!  I cannot believe we only have 2 weeks left of school before the Christmas holidays!  Here are this week’s learning highlights from The Red Pandas:

Maja enjoyed examining a descriptive piece of writing called ‘My Grandma’.  This is our last piece of writing from the genre.  We have planned a special piece of descriptive writing ourselves.  Be sure to read next week’s post when we reveal what it was about!

Viaan has continued to like our maths lesson on addition within 100 using the upstairs, downstair chimney method.  Next week we will progress to learning what to do if the answer to a column is greater than 9.

Laaibah said the learning highlight of her week was making information posters.  She chose to make hers about the beaver.  The instructional drawing made a super focal point in the middle of her poster.  Her layout serviced as an example of one that met the success criteria: name of animal included, picture of animal included, large font, spaced out facts (taken from last week’s note taking exercise), a Scottish flag (to show it is a Scottish wild animal) and colourful to make it eye catching.  Laaibah chose to do hers as part of a group.  Super teamwork ladies!

Nathan enjoyed watching Elf on Tuesday as part of a Christmas treat after the delicious Christmas lunch.  A big thank you to all the kitchen staff for this tasty lunch!

Amelia and Tyler T both report that Scottish country dancing was the best part of their week.  The children have grown so much in confidence since we started our lessons a couple of weeks ago.  We will be ready for when it is our party on Monday 15^th.

Alex and Dawid both agree that the outdoor learning session this week with Kids Gone Wild was thee best part of their week.  Thankfully the weather was on our side!  The children went to a local woodland and for a few hours, enjoyed playing!  I witnessed a lot of creative, imaginative play.  There was also den building with sticks, the zipline, slackline and chill time in the hammocks.  It was a FAB experience for all!

Danvith loved being the Kids Gone Wild teacher’s helper!  He helped her carry the equipment we needed and assisted her putting it up and taking it down.  Thank you Danvith!

My highlight was seeing the children work together on the zipline, supporting one another, encouraging one another, working co-operatively holding the ladder while their friend participated and then bringing the handle back up the zipline ready for the next person.  Wonderful!

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown